Anna M. Rios

Anna M. Rios grew up in Williams, California, north of San Francisco. She began at the University of California, Berkeley at the age of 14, as part of a gifted program for youth. Anna was then selected by Berkeley for the Goldwater Scholarship, a national award for undergraduates with strong research potential in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in 2022, she enrolled at Harvard and led independent research at the medical school as a Research Scholar Initiative fellow. In 2024, Anna was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and transitioned to Yale. She is now pursuing a PhD in neuroscience, in the labs of Dr. Pietro De Camilli and Dr. Thomas Melia.